<p>I was just listening to public radio yesterday- to a true story about a young man who was gay and his father who was Palestinian and who jsut could not deal with it.
His wife ended up leaving him- because the dad was upset to the point where he wanted to marry another woman who was young enough to have another child- ( after his son didn't take him up on his offer to sell all his land in order to enter a hospital and be "cured")
Anyway- the mother was staying with her son and his friends- who she liked very much- although her husband still wrote her almost everyday
However- the last letter that came- stated that he had married another woman- this shocked the mother so much that she became amnesiac.
So going to Vegas when a spouse suddenly dies- actually seems relatively restrained in terms of response.</p>